A
pastor in one of the Nigerian branches of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide has
been expelled from the ministry.

According
to a statement signed by Pastor David Apelorioye, the head of admin at OFM,
Pastor Joseph Aiyedun, who is in charge of one the OFM branches in Aba, Abia
State, was fired for participating in the Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM), a ponzi
scheme widely acclaimed to be a satanic venture.

It
should be recalled that the founder and president of the OFM, Apostle Johnson
Suleman, at a church service in November 2016, warned members of his
congregation against involving in MMM, calling it ‘demonic’.

The
statement from the church reads thus; “The management of Omega Fire Ministries
Worldwide is using this medium to react to a news making the rounds on the
social media regarding one of his pastors who used the ministry’s name to
register for the MMM scheme. Ordinarily, the church would not have reacted to
the story because of falsehoods being published regularly by some blogs and
news websites whose credibility are questionable. But after a thorough
investigation by the church authority, it was established that one of our
branch pastors in Aba, Pastor Joseph Aiyedun, indeed participated in the
scheme.”

The
statement adds that the erring pastor was sacked after a thorough investigation
and it was discovered that he used the name of the church to register for MMM,
thereby denting the ministry’s image in the public eye. It was gathered that
the erring pastor would have just been disciplined in line with the church
rules if he had registered for the scheme in his personal capacity but because
he used the ministry’s name for the scheme, he was asked to go.

“The
church authority decided to expel Pastor Aiyedun not because he registered for
the ponzi scheme but because he involved the ministry’s name in the satanic
adventure. And we discovered that he was able to use the ministry’s name
because he had access to the account of his branch which itself is against the
church’s guidelines and a fraud likely to have been carried out in connivance
with the branch’s account department. We are still investigating further to
unravel the whole activities.”
The statement therefore appeals to the general public to disregard any news
being passed around about Omega Fire Ministries involving in the MMM scheme or
any scheme of its kind because it is not true.

“Of
the OFM’s 200 churches in Nigeria alone and its 800 branches in 51 nations of
the world, it is possible for any of the pastors to go astray and be corrected.
In fact, we discovered that Pastor Aiyedun, including some other members of
OFM, did the scheme before our father, Apostle Johnson Suleman made the warning
last year against MMM, but Pastor Aiyedun was fired because he did it with the
ministry’s name as the OFM rules forbid any of its pastors access to the
account except people in the account department.”

It
was gathered that to enable him look after his family whilst he searches for
other things to do in life, the church paid the sacked pastor a full one year
salary ahead on the instruction of Apostle Suleman who was not available for
comments at press time.